07/02/09 sports for Thursday

The large thunder storm that rolled through the area last night rained out the Sheridan troopers double header with Cody last next up for the troops a road double header Monday at Casper.

The Sheridan jets will spend the weekend at home they host double headers Saturday and Sunday with teams from Rapid City game time Saturday is 2 o'clock and 11 o'clock Sunday morning.

Five Sheridan area high school youth have qualified for the High school National finals rodeo later this month. Megan Belus from Buffalo will compete in the pole bending and break away roping this will be her 2nd straight trip to the national finals. Nikki Bauman from Sheridan will compete in goat tying and break away roping. Luke Camino from Clearmont will compete at the finals in steer wrestling Camino also qualified for the national finals in 2008. Jake Gill from Wyola will compete in tie down roping and Taylor Kelly from Sheridan will compete in the saddle bronc riding. The high school national finals rodeo will be held in Farmington New Mexico July 20th through 26th.

In professional rodeo we continue our preview of the 79th Sheridan wWYO rodeo with rodeo committee president Billy Craft it's been 15 years since the WYO started the progression of becoming one of the top rodeos in all the country.It all started in 1994 when the rodeo committee signed Sankey Pro rodeo as the stock contractor and the rest is history Craft says it was at that point the committee started a program of growth to make the WYO what it is in 2009.One of the most notable changes has been the added seating at the fair grounds Craft says it seems the more seats they were able to put in more fans filled those seats and Craft says long term, additional seating could be added to arena.The new seating took attendance from around 2500 to 4000 fans at each performance. The WYO features all the traditional events but one event makes our rodeo even more unique. Each performance starts with the running of the World championships of Indian relay racing Craft says it didn't take long for the relays to become a fan favorite.Rodeo action will get started next Wednesday morning at 7 am with steer roping slack they will also have slack thursday morning which will include tie down roping, team roping and steer wrestling.

The 2009 Wyoming state trap shoot got underway in Sheridan yesterday at the Sportsmen's complex on Soldier creek road the event will run through Saturday.

The Colorado Rockies and Los Angeles Dodgers ended a three game set in L.A. yesterday and it ended up being one of the best series of the season in the National league. The Dodgers took the first game Monday 4-2 with a walk off home run. the Rockies took game two 3-0 behind the pitching of Jason Marquis, Marquis threw a two hitter to pick up his 10th win of the season..Yesterday fans were treated to a good old fashion pitcher's duel with the Dodgers scoring a run in the bottom of the eighth inning then hanging on in the ninth to win it 1-0.The game was the last of a nine game road swing for Colorado the “Rocks” are off today before opening up a three game series with Arizona at Coors field tomorrow.

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